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| + | <h3>Back to [[Holotopia:Five insights|Five insights]]</h3> | ||
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| + | <div class="page-header" ><h1>Convenience Paradox</h1></div> | ||
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| + | <small>The way to happiness must be illuminated by suitable knowledge</small> | ||
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| − | + | Surprisingly often, <em>convenience</em> as direction (reaching out for what feels pleasant or attractive) leads to a <em>less</em> convenient condition. The way to happiness must be illuminated by suitable knowledge. | |
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| − | + | Lao Tzu</p> | |
| − | + | <p><small>"The easy way seems difficult." Although the legendary sage pointed to the paradoxical nature of "the way" to happiness twenty five centuries ago, <em>we</em> are still deceived by the paradox. Lao Tzu also pointed out that the roots of the paradox are to be found in how sensory impressions, and the way in which we act on them, affect the way in which we respond <em>emotionally</em> to stimuli (our ability to feel): "The five colors cause one's eyes to go blind. (...) The five flavors confuse one's palate. The five tones cause one's ears to go deaf". Finally, he is a popular icon of Taoism, the philosophy of living in accordance with the nature of the Way ("tao" literally means "way"). Hence we chose him as the icon of the <em>convenience paradox</em> insight as well. </small> | |
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| + | Moshe Feldenkrais</p> | ||
| + | <p> <small>We create and use the technology to make our lives easy. Yet the by far heaviest object that we ever lift and carry around is the one we can never get rid of... "Correct action feels, and is effortless." The story here is about how Moshe (a proven polymath and <em>giant</em>) combined a doctorate in physics with a thorough Judo education to understand something fundamental about—ourselves.</small> | ||
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| + | Buddhadasa</p> | ||
| + | <small><p>A young prince in India saw people suffer, and was so shocked that he decided to leave the comfort of his palace and seek a remedy to suffering. After years of trials and tribulation, the last five of which were spent in continued meditation, he saw the light and found the remedy. His first public lectures were about "The Four Noble Truths", the first of which was the truth of suffering.</p> | ||
| + | <p>(OK, we may need to change the language here a bit.) Don't know about you—but I don't find this popular version of the story plausible. Could <em>anyone</em> really be so much beyond the world, to be surprised that people suffer? And then, after coming back to the world, offer the existence of suffering as his first big insight? Everything changes quite radically, however, when we replace the common word "suffering" by the technical Buddhist keyword "dukkha". But what <em>is</em> dukkha? Well, the answer is exactly The First Noble Truth of Buddhism.</p> | ||
| + | <p>The insight here (the communication of which has remained a lasting challenge) that <em>dukkha</em> constitutes of lion's share of humanity's emotional suffering. <em>And</em> that the elimination of <em>dukkha</em> is the key to "happiness between one and plus invinity"...</p> | ||
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| − | + | The pursuit of <em>wholeness</em>. Ignoring symptoms, and improving ourselves and our environment.</p> | |
| − | + | <p>Using the knowledge accumulated in world traditions to create ways to happiness.</p> | |
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Latest revision as of 10:37, 9 April 2020
Contents
H O L O T O P I A
Title
Pitch
Text
Scope
Text
View
Text
Ideogram
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I M A G E
Caption
Federating the TITLE
Stories
Story 1
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I M A G E
Caption
Story 2
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I M A G E
Caption
Actions
Action 1
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Action 2
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Back to Five insights